On Yellow-Red Color Blindness

I was going to say, this drink was X, Y & Z and then I go back to the recipe and realize that it was very fucked up. On page 159 there’s a drink called the La Louche which is six parts gin, four parts Lillet rouge, two parts lime juice, one part yellow Chartreuse and one part simple syrup.

I knew I had green Chartreuse and not the yellow variety and thought “Oh well.” But it wasn’t until going back just now that I realized I missed the “rouge” part of “Lillet rouge.”

Anyway, this drink — with green Chartreuse and the non-rouge Lillet was kind of one note (as determined by the executive committee, not me), like a fancified gimlet. Maybe I’ll try it the normal way at some point.